About Me

  • About Me: This where I talk to myself outloud...like I do in real life. Welcome aboard---but I warn you---the driver is a little nuts...well maybe very nuts.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Elizabethtown, Never Been Kissed, The Usual Suspects, The Big Easy, Matrix, Van Helsing, Jumpin Jack Flash...Black Sheep...deathproof...
  • Favorite Actors: Hugh Jackman, Sean Connery, and Orlando Bloom, even if he is a baby...and god, let's face it...Johnny Depp!
  • Favorite Directors: Tarentino is starting to win me over...
  • Favorite Genre: too varied to pick one
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Dirty Dancing, Rent, Working Girl,
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: Marines, We are LEAVING! (aliens 2)
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Jumping Jack Flash, True Lies, The Full Monty, Shirley Valentine, Waking Ned Devine, Saving Grace...
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: She doesn't look like me...but Jodi Foster!

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Gala The Word Wench, Gala of the Garden...
  • Nationality: Human
  • Religion: Spiritual...not religious
  • Heroes: Desiree A. Shields, literary wenches...
  • Interests: Writing, community service---and politics...but please...read some before you decide to debate. I prefer facts to opinions---no matter how passionate...
  • Expertise: My first collection of poetry has been avaiable from Iriswhite Publishing since 2005...and my second will be released in 2008. I am a writer, dammit!
  • Occupation: Five Kinds of Writer...are you hiring?
  • Industry: Copywriting, PR

Television

  • Favorite Shows: House, CSI, Medium
  • Favorite Channels: Channels? I watchem on DVD...

Style

  • Where I shop: Thrift Stores
  • Brands I love: Anything i can find that's quality
  • I like to wear: Jeans, silk, men's cut shirts
  • Can't live without: Cotton, natural fabrics....
  • Prized Possessions: My silver stuff...
  • Guilty Pleasure: Perfumes...unusual ones like Nahema, or stuff that's not on every other woman...

College

  • School Name: Rowan University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1982
  • Attended: 1978 - 1982
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Advertising/Communications
  • Minor(s): Creative Writing
  • Sports: GOD no
  • Organizations: Avant, The Whit, Venue

Travel

  • Places I love: St. John, USVI....Ocracoke Island, NC
  • Places I've been: Florida, Jamaica, St. Thomas, Atlantic Sea Coast
  • Places to see before I die: England, Wales, Scotland...maybe some more Caribbean
  • Dream Vacation: A year to travel wherever I wish---INSIDE the US...meet the people...and write.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: George Michael, Elton John, James Keelaghan, Bonnie Raitt, Ronstadt, Kenny Rankin, Billy Joel, QUEEN,
  • Favorite Albums: Faith, Bohemian Rhapsody, Silver Lining, Nick Of Time,
  • Favorite Genre: Does it have NOTES? But vocals for sure...
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Born to be Wild, Beatles, OH GOD...too many
  • Guilty Pleasure: Abba...so shoot me
  • Band I wish I was in: Fleetwood Mac, of course...I can BELT!

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Mandarin Cantonese, American, Italian (New York)
  • Favorite Dishes: Grand Marneir Shrimp, coconut shrimp, filet migon
  • Favorite Desserts: Tirimisu, cheesecake, ice cream
  • Favorite Drinks: Reisling, Jack and Ginger
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Gyros.
  • Best meal ever: Cafe Matisse...anything on the menu
  • My Original Recipes: are you MAD? It took me forever to learn to cook this well!
  • Favorite Restaurants: Cafe Matisse, East Rutherford NJ
  • Foods I hate: Over hot, over spiced, over greasy

Books

  • Favorite Books: Bingo, High Hearts, The Darkover Series, Incubus Dreams
  • Favorite Authors: Rita Mae Brown, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Laurel K. Hamilton
  • Favorite Genres: Poetry, Fantasy Fiction
  • Favorite Quotes: History is rarely made by well behaved women...
  • Recent Reads: Alma Mater, Rita Mae Brown

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    • Birthday: 10/1/1960
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 1/9/2001
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Memories (8)

  • galadrial
    The first news of the planes---the coverage, and the phone calls. Everyone was so...surreal that day. I think it took a while for the reality to set in---and when it did, I think it changed everyone...maybe in ways they themselves can never guess...
  • galadrial
    The trip I made to help Tony with the conference. It was...amazing, for so many reasons. He was a unique man, more like a force of nature than a person. I think I never saw someone who took in everything like he did. And I met my friend Mara, and her family on the same trip. Knowing som
  • galadrial
    The day my book arrived. Dear God...it was amazing. I was not that excited on my wedding day---and the only thing that exceeded it was the first time I saw Desi... Forget sex. Forget love. Forget everything else. Let something you dreamed of, half in secret happen, and you touch Nirvana...

Chatboard (1)

  • galadrial
    OK folks...what's on your mind? I am in search of coffee...but feel free to drop a line!